What flew over your house today?

[SJPONeill]

UH-1H from 3 Sqn when wokk-ing over this house this afternoon...

[Motley]

Over the weekend i was in Devon with college on an adventure weekend were i saw 2 Vigilant T1 motor gliders flying around a beach and one evening heard a huge noise and what came flying over the place i was a staying, a nice bright yellow RAF SAR Seaking and then got to watch it land pick up a patient and take off and fly direct over me at a stupidly low level too. I believe they all came from Royal Marines Base Chivenor which use to be RAF Chivenor which was only like a mile from where i was staying

[jssel]

We don't see this around this area much.

A UH60 from the Michigan National Guard on a training exercise supporting the local Guard Engineer Company. They used the ball field at a local park to pick up the troops. Being a live exercise, I could not get a walk around.







The lift platoon of the Guard unit is called the "Silverbacks" after the great apes.

[airjim]

I'm being buzzed by the Goodyear Blimp. Not an unusual occurrence in Akron, but it does take some time...

Jim

[PaulBradley]

Local open day at the airport means lots of little spam cans. Nothing interesting actually flew over the house, but lots of interesting stuff at the airport - see my thread in the Aviaiton Hangar.

[carlos]

A Jet Provost flew over here today (Newton Aycliffe), 3 times - Went North, then turned round within binocular view, came back over and went back South.
About 10 mins later, went over again, headed North - Red and White livery.

Noisy little fellas aren't they..??

[jssel]

A CH54 Skycrane, UH60M Blackhawks heading to the front line of a Forest Fire I am deployed at.

[T-21]

BBMF DH Chipmunk WK518 flew over at 17:10hrs heading south Monday 05 June. Track from Coningsby gives approx destination as Halton or Odiham. The bright new orange colour scheme are what made it stand out.

[Falcon]

Not exactly seen flying over my house but here goes.....

Saw 3x RoKAF KAI T-50B Golden Eagles on the backs of low loader trucks yesterday on the M62 motorway.

They were being taken from Manchester airport (where they had arrived earlier that morning on a 747 freighter) to RAF Leeming for reassembly prior to the 'Black Eagles' aerobatic display team appearing at the RAF Waddington Airshow, Farnborough Airshow and RIAT.

The next ones are due into Manchester on Friday.

[Gregers]

Not so much over the house but I have just called in at RAF Finningley (Still refuse to call it Robin hood airport - stupid name! ) And the Vulcan was sat outside. I hope they get the #2 engine sorted for the RAF Waddington air show next week end.

All the best.

Greg

[Brickie]

Apparently not, #1 and #2 are both totalled and the display's off.

[Gregers]

I was talking with one of the pilots today. No 1 looks to be ok but 2 is U/S. It has been replaced and the engines run but it won't make Waddington for certain. I knew about the gel pack having been left and then ingested by the engine just over a week ago. This incident had the engine thrown it's blades could have written off the aircraft had it punctured either the inside of the wing or the fuselage.

Best regards.

Greg

[AndrewR]

A CF-18 just flew low over the house. It's doing the Canada Day flypast at the Aviation Museum at the Rockcliffe Airfield. We saw a Herky-bird earlier - probably the Golden Hawks Parachute Team heading for a display.

[David J Ross]

Okay, I know it's not exactly what this thread calls for but it's close so I think I'll share it.

I was watching an episode of Coast that I recorded just over a month ago. It had a bit about the airship building that took place, here in Barrow, back in 1911. This has a special interest to me as my greatgrandfather listed his occupation, in the 1911 census, as 'wood sawyer, airship building'. Their was a shot of the shipyard taken from a plane flying up the Walney Channel. In the middle of the shot I can see my house. I know the link, to the thread, is a bit slim but I saw it today (the programme) and the flying was close to my house.

[bobblelink]

The Goodyear blimp! A lovely sight.